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The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts,
a panel made up of Donald Trump's appointees,
on Thursday approved his proposal to build a ballroom larger than the White House itself
where the East Wing once stood.
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An arts panel made up of Trump appointees approves his proposal for a massive White House ballroom
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has sued in federal court to halt construction of the ballroom.

Android: Sideloading unverifizierter Apps wird aufwändiger
Android-Apps können offenbar auch ohne Entwickler-Verifizierung bei Google per Sideload installiert werden. Der Ablauf soll aber aufwändiger werden als bisher.

Zohran Mamdani appointee resigns after vile antisemitic social media posts resurface (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/18/us-news/zohran-mamdani-appointee-catherine-almonte-da-costa-made-vile-antisemitic-comments-in-unearthed-social-media-posts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p57#a251219p57

From abandonment to adoption: advancing assistive technologies for blindness and low vision in the AI era https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1719746/full

Frontiers | From abandonment to adoption: advancing assistive technologies for blindness and low vision in the AI era
Assistive technologies can enhance safety, independence, and quality of life for people with blindness and low vision. Despite their benefits, abandonment of...

Great writeup on how tech elites have given up (quite a few years ago).
From 2019, but could be written yesterday
https://www.boundary2.org/2019/08/sarah-t-roberts-and-mel-hogan-left-behind-futurist…

Sarah T. Roberts and Mél Hogan — Left Behind: Futurist Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth
Sarah T. Roberts and Mél Hogan This essay has been peer-reviewed by "The New Extremism" special issue editors (Adrienne Massanari and David Golumbia), and the b2o: An Online Journal editorial board. "You know, I hear all these rich guys, for some reason they love space. So they're rich. I said, 'let them send the rockets...

Was ich am Hauptbahnhof München mag: da leistet sich die Bahn noch einen echten Sprecher für die Ansagen, keine zusammengestückelten Textbausteine „vom Band“. #abenteuerbahn

A Trump-appointed judge was so upset with the living conditions in which ICE detained an immigrant in Long Island, New York, that he
threatened to hold the government in contempt.
U.S. District Judge Gary Brown,
who was appointed by Trump in 2019,
issued a 24-page ruling Thursday
vehemently castigating the Department of Homeland Security
for refusing to provide photos of a holding room
that illegally held a noncitizen for multiple nights,
calli…

Trump Judge Threatens to Hold Government in Contempt Over ICE
“I have never encountered anything like this,” wrote a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump.

Im Allgäu hat man's an Weihnachten offenbar eher dunkel: Feierabend mit einem Allgäuer Brauhaus Winterbier aus Kempten. Ein kräftiges Dunkles, das war's dann auch schon. Prost. #abenteuerbier #biervielfalt

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Mathematikerin und GPS-Pionierin Gladys West im Alter von 95 Jahren gestorben

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Linux Mint: Version 22.3 „Zena“ mit langem Supportzeitraum